My Two Families tells the story of a child who has two families, often because their parents live in different homes. The child shares experiences of spending time with each family and learns that love and care can come from more than one place. Written in simple sentences with supportive illustrations, the book helps young readers understand family diversity and reassures them that having two …
Journey into the fascinating and exciting world of life after death. Uncover the dark secrets of the mummies of ancient Egypt.
Reject Rovers are about to make history - the worst kind of history. If they lose one more game they'll claim a place in the record books as the official Worst Team of All Time. Can Kevin 'Panic' Taylor transform his team of no-hopers before Saturday?
This book is part of TreeTops Fiction, a structured reading programme providing juniors with stories they will love to read. Offering chapter books with full-colour illustrations, written by well-known authors, these stories are full of humour and have real boy appeal. They are tightly levelled allowing children to read books appropriate to their ability. Books contain inside cover notes to su…
Everyone knows that William Shakespeare is famous for having a way with words and creating characters like romantic Romeo and murderous Macbeth. But in this book, readers can find out everything they didn't know, including how he did a seven-year vanishing act and how he nearly had his head chopped off by Queen Elizabeth I! Everything readers ever wanted to know about the man with the quill pen.
Shrink, shrank, shrunk! Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink, and it's always the three feet, eight inches tall. Then, one day, the ruler reads - can it be? - three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is Stink shrinking? In Stink's first solo adventure, his style comes through loud and strong - enhanced by a series of comic strips, drawn by Stink himself, which are sprinkled throug…
To start, Judy Moody doesn't have high hopes for third grade. Her new desk won't have an armadillo sticker with her name on it. Her new classroom will not have a porcupine named Roger. And with her luck, she'll get stuck sitting in the first row, where Mr. Todd will notice every time she tries to pass a note to her best friend, Rocky. An aspiring doctor, Judy does have a little brother who come…
Hear ye! Hear ye! Everyone knows that Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion, and now a visit to Boston has put our famous third grader in a revolutionary mood. When Judy meets an English girl named Tori at the Tea Party ship, she is gobsmacked to learn how many liberties her British friend enjoys — her very own phone, private loo, and pounds of allowance. When a day of cheerfully doing her…
The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th president fought-and won-his first battle at the age of two-and-a-half, when he was stricken with scarlet fever. Although his presidency was cut short, our nation's youngest elected leader left an indelible mark on the American consciousness and now is profiled in our Who Was...? series. Included are 100 black-and…